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This is one that comes to mind every so often at work:

"That is a good idea, but it is a new one, and we fear it, so we must reject it"--Lothar of the Hill People

Prost!
Brad
 
General U.S. Grant in reference to his being tone deaf,

I know what is Yankee Doodle and what isn't.
 
Too often we ..... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. (John F. Kennedy)

Raymond;):)
 
''Those bloody spitfires caused all this''

Hitler to Eva 1945 just before the crack of the bullet!!
Mitch
 
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine
 
"Why are we going in there again, Daddy?"
"Shut up," he explained--Ring Lardner, "The Young Immigrunts".

Not so much a quote as a citation from the short story, and also, I've read it, and could not find this specific quote. I first saw this quoted in the margin in my 12th grade sociology book.

"Because they're stupid! That's why everybody does everything!"
"Oh! This is everybody's fault but mine!"

--Homer Simpson

Prost!
Brad
 
"Three men can keep a secret . . . if two of them are dead."

Benjamin Franklin (for my money the greatest founding father).
 
theBaron said:
This is one that comes to mind every so often at work:

"That is a good idea, but it is a new one, and we fear it, so we must reject it"--Lothar of the Hill People

Prost!
Brad
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LOL. So true. Lothar was a true genius. -- Al
 
lancer said:
LOL. So true. Lothar was a true genius. -- Al
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Lothar: "Borg! Tyler! Of what do you speak?"
Tyler: "We speak of many things...of the hunt...and of the weakness of women."
Lothar: "Oh, do not tell me that women are weak, for my woman has cast me from the hut yet again!"

Those sketches cracked me up. The "new idea" quote was from an episode that I saw only when it first aired and then when the whole SNL episode was rerun that season, and never again. Fred Savage was the guest host and played Lothar's son, who made a suggestion to improve the hunt, prompting Lothar's response.

When I'm confronted with that same kind of bovine thinking, I also often think of an older SNL sketch, "The Hominds", with Steve Martin as the first "modern" human in a tribe of Neanderthals. He has an idea to improve the hunt, and when he demonstrates by using rocks on the ground to show where everyone should stand--"These rocks represent us"--Bill Murray, as the Father Hunter, puzzles for a moment, then says, "...We are not rocks."

Or I think of the Big Bad Wolf from "The Windblown Hare"--"I can't blow the brick house, it says so in the book!"

"Book, shnook, blow the house down!"
 
And when I find myself in a situation for which I am underprepared:

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."--Chief Brody in Jaws
 
David Crockett: We're gonna need a lot more men.

From the movie.
 
A couple apt for November:

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
......
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal


 
Don't forget "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho.
 
"Well, we'll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite!" - King Arthur.
 
Spitfrnd said:
A couple apt for November:

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
......
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal
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That is perfect!:D
 
Anybody can become angry-that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not within everybody's power and that is not easy.
Aristotle
Mitch
 
Martin Scorsese Movie Good-Fellas

''If a guy complains twice, he gets hit so badly, believe me, he never complains again''...
 
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